Fragments of secret correspondence from Intel and accomplices

As you know, Intel received on May 13 from the European Commission a fine of € 1.06 billion for unfair competition. In July, Intel filed an appeal to the European Court of Justice, and after that actively commented in the press "injustice" of the decision of the European Commission.

Since the dispute went public, the European Commission did not remain in debt. Yesterday, she posted in open access irrefutable evidence of the guilt of Intel. These are fragments of the correspondence of top managers of various companies who did unclean business with the microprocessor giant in 2002-2007. These documents became the basis for imposing a fine.

Published documents include excerpts from correspondence vendors Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo, NEC and European retail network Media Saturn, in which they discuss the terms of their secret (covert) agreements with Intel. From there, it is clearly seen that Intel provided discounts to vendors, if they completely abandon the purchase of AMD products or reduce them to a minimum (no more than 5% of the range), special conditions are negotiated under which vendors have the right to sell computers with AMD processors (for example, HP could sell AMD systems only to small and medium enterprises and only directly, not through distributors.

For example, this is what one of the HP managers wrote to their colleague in September 2004:
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“You must be done direct.” Intel moneys (each month) is gone (they terminate the deal). The risk is too high. "

And here, for example, Lenovo managers in June 2006 discuss the results of the dinner with Intel's manager, who inclined them not to release an AMD-based laptop.

"[Lenovo] executive executives] tonight (…). [...] I’ve got it in the next quarter, [he] told us (... NB [notebook] platform. (...) Intel.